Sharon Machlis
Executive Editor, Data & Analytics
Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at IDG, where she works on analyzing data (both for IDG Enterprise Web sites and journalism projects) and in-house editor tools in addition to writing and editing. Her tech interests include data visualization and analysis as well as the intersection of journalism and technology. She holds an Extra class amateur radio license and is currently somewhat obsessed with R. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism was published in December 2018.
5 handy options in R data.table’s fread
Not just a speedy way to import data into R, fread has useful options for importing subsets of data, setting data types for columns, running system commands, and more
GIS aids in Covid-19 fight beyond tracking cases
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How to create tables in R with expandable rows
See how to use the reactable R package to make an interactive table with rows that expand when clicked
How to run R 4.0 in Docker — and 3 cool new R 4.0 features
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Dplyr across: First look at a new Tidyverse function
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Easier ggplot with the ggeasy R package
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R data.table symbols and operators you should know
Make your R data.table code more efficient and elegant with these special symbols and operators. Plus, learn about the new fcase() function
RStudio Conference 2020 videos you don’t want to miss
You can watch dozens of must-see RStudio Conference videos online. Don't know where to start? Let us help
Add color to your ggplot2 text in R
See how to style the headlines and axis text in your ggplot graphs with the ggtext package for R
How to get RStudio Conference 2020 workshop materials free online
Topics include machine learning, geospatial analysis, time series, visualizations, interactive apps, and much more
RStudio restructures to focus on ‘public benefit’
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Do More With R bonus download: Interactive Shiny app to search Twitter
Download the code and step-by-step instructions for creating an interactive Shiny app to search tweets with the rtweet package and create a browser-based app with the results
Create a Shiny app to search Twitter with rtweet and R
See how to create an interactive Shiny web application to search, sort, and track tweets with a specific hashtag
How to search Twitter with rtweet and R
See how to create your own searchable data frame of conference tweets using the rtweet R package
How to send text messages from R
See how easily you can send texts directly from an R script with Twilio and the twilio R package
How to do spatial analysis in R with sf
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How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table
See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package
Get API data with R
No R package for the API you want? It’s easy to write your own function with the httr and jsonlite packages.